200-Proof Marketing

I’ll use almost anything to get a competitive edge, and although I won’t tell you all of my tricks, I figured I’ld give you a few.

If you do your Niche Marketing like I do, you sell your products primarily with PPC(pay-per-click) in the beginning. SEO comes later, if at all.

When you release a new product on Clickbank, it goes to the bottom of the list in the Marketplace, where it is usually overlooked by affiliates.

To get affiliates you have to either wait until a good affiliate finds your product and promotes it(which could take months), or use a dirty trick to send it climbing up the list.

How do you raise your product rank in the Marketplace?

Easy… If you’re like me you have a lot of accounts with Clickbank. All you need to do is use another one of your accounts as an affiliate in your PPC ads.

Say your product is on an account called “product” and you have another account called “something.”

Just make an affiliate link like this one: something.product.hop.clickbank.net

Then make that your Destination link in your PPC Campaign.

Now every sale you get on your own will count as an affiliate sale, which will boost your ranking in the Marketplace.

I suggest you only use this until you have a few affiliates. There’s no real benefit to over exploiting it because once a few affiliates find it they will raise the rank on their own.

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